[Air-L] CFP for Special Training Issue of the Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication and Globalization

Wed Oct 6 02:59:31 PDT 2010

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Pam Brewer <brewerpe at appstate.edu> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues--
>
> Please forgive cross-postings. We cordially remind you to consider
> submitting proposals for researched papers or best practices pieces in a
> special issue of JPCG entitled "Navigating the Global Training Terrain: New
> Literacies, Competencies, and Practices." This issue, to be published in
> fall 2011, will focus on training in global contexts from the perspective of
> both those who train and those who learn. We seek submissions from a variety
> of perspectives including business, science, humanitarian practice, health,
> social advocacy, education, and government.
>
> Proposals can be up to 500 words and should be submitted on or before
> October 10, 2010. We have included specific dates in the publishing cycle in
> the CFP copied below. Please feel free to share this CFP with others who may
> be interested. We hope that this special issue will represent academic and
> practitioner perspectives as well as multiple disciplines. If you have any
> questions, please email me at brewerpe at appstate.edu <mailto:
> brewerpe at appstate.edu>.
>
> Best!
> Pam
>
> --
> Pamela Estes Brewer
> Assistant Professor
> Director, Writing and Editing Internships
> Department of English
> Appalachian State University
> Manager, STC Academic Special Interest Group
> phone 828-262-2351
> fax 828-262-2133
> email brewerpe at appstate.edu <mailto:brewerpe at appstate.edu>
>
> *Call for Papers: Special Issue*
>
> *Navigating the Global Training Terrain: New Literacies, Competencies, and
> Practices
> *(to be published in September/the Fall of 2011)
>
>
>
> The twenty-first century has been characterized by rapid
> transformation—technological, social, cultural, environmental, economic, and
> scientific. In this changing milieu, organizations and individuals must
> continually acquire new knowledge and abilities or be left behind.
> Influential entities such as the United Nations strongly advocate the
> pursuit of lifelong learning for individuals, while leading companies,
> government agencies, and non-governmental organizations seek to become what
> scholars such as Peter Senge have called “learning organizations” that can
> transform themselves through the learning of their members at all levels.
>
> Training, or the structured development of skills, competencies, and
> up-to-date knowledge, is an increasingly important element in these
> pursuits. The shape of training may vary—formal or informal, face-to-face or
> technologically mediated, short-term or long-term—but the end purpose is
> always the same: to facilitate learning by individuals or groups, usually
> with the larger purpose of enhancing organizational quality.
>
> Training is vital to the success of globally connected organizations and
> individuals, but success requires the trainers’ effective bridging of
> linguistic, cultural, and social distances. Only teams and individuals with
> facility in navigating diverse languages, cultures, technologies,
> educational practices, and rhetorical traditions will be able to
> successfully provide training to global audiences.
>
> Professional communicators, whose discipline claims expertise in several
> areas relevant to training—including oral, written, and visual rhetoric,
> usability, information architecture, electronic collaboration, intercultural
> communication, and collaboration with translators—are well positioned to
> contribute to global training efforts or take on the role of trainers
> themselves. Yet, despite these advantages, the pool of research on training
> in global audiences is limited, especially within the field of professional
> communication.
>
> This special issue of the /Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication,
> and Globalization/ seeks to address this need by providing a space for
> scholarly research and best practices on the topic of global, organizational
> training. The issue, entitled *Navigating the Global Training Terrain: New
> Literacies, Competencies, and Practices *will focus on training in global
> contexts from the perspective of both those who train and those who learn,
> including current research and best practices. The special issue will also
> cast an eye toward organizational training as it is evolving towards the
> future.
>
> The editors of the special issue welcome submissions from a variety of
> perspectives including business, science, humanitarian practice, health,
> social advocacy, education, and government.
>
>
> Possible topics pertaining to the theory, teaching, and practice of
> training in global contexts include the following, among others:
>
> · Intercultural considerations in the design and delivery of training
>
> · Training and the social web
>
> · Cultural intelligence for trainers and training audiences
>
> · Language use and translation in training contexts
>
> · Meta-communication and training
>
> · Communities of practice
>
> · Legal issues in global training
>
> · Economic aspects of global training
>
> · Assessment of global training
>
> · Training from a distance
>
> Proposals (up to 500 words) for research papers, short best practices
> pieces*, and tutorials are due by October 10^th , 2010. Review criteria can
> be found on the Journal’s website at *www.rpcg.org*. Proposals should be
> sent as an email attachment to one of the guest editors of the special
> issue:
>
> Pam Brewer, Appalachian State University: *brewerpe at appstate.edu*
>
> Jim Melton, Central Michigan University: *james.melton at cmich.edu*
>
> Joo-Seng Tan, Nanyang Technological University: *ajstan at ntu.edu.sg*
>
> * We strongly encourage practitioners to submit best practices pieces on
> any of the topics identified in this CFP or on related topics. Best
> practices describe the training strategies, approaches, or methods that work
> in a particular situation or environment. What has worked and why? What has
> not worked so well, and what could work better? Authors may use the
> following optional framework for best practices pieces: title, description,
> methods used, results, technologies used, and lessons learned. While the
> proposal and review process is the same for research papers, tutorials, and
> best practices pieces, final manuscripts for best practices should be
> shorter: approximately 1000 to 3000 words in length.
>
> *Production Schedule
> *The schedule for the special issue is as follows:
> 10 October 2010 -- 500-word proposals due
> 15 October 2010 – Guest editors return proposal decisions to submitters
> 10 January 2011 – Draft manuscripts of accepted proposals due
> 1 July 2011 -- Final manuscripts due
> September 2011 -- Publication date of special issue
>
> *About the Journal
> *The /Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication and Globalization/
> publishes articles on the theory, practice, and teaching of technical and
> professional communication in critical global and intercultural contexts
> such as business, manufacturing, environment, information technology, and
> others. As a global initiative, the Journal welcomes manuscripts with
> diverse approaches and contexts of research, but manuscripts are to be
> submitted in English and grounded in relevant theory and appropriate
> research methods. The Journal is peer reviewed with an editorial board
> consisting of experienced researchers and practitioners from over 20
> countries. **
>
> The Journal is free or “open access,” using PKP open source software and
> housed at East Carolina University. The first edition is planned for
> September 2010, and it will be published thereafter on a quarterly basis.
> For more information, see *www.rpcg.org.*
>
> _______________________________________________
> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at:
> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
>
> Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
> http://www.aoir.org/
>

-- 
*********************************************************
Consultora Estratégica en Innovación Educativa
http://www.elearning3d.es
e-mail: ruth.martinez at elearning3d.es
skype: ruth_martinez
móvil: +34 654 83 94 25
twitter: @aureamemotech
SL Avatar: AureA Memotech

**********************************************************